New York @ Oakland preview

Last Meeting ( May 30, 2015 ) NY Yankees 5, Oakland 3

New York's Carlos Beltran on Sunday looks to finish his resurgent May in style when the Yankees try for a series split with the host Oakland Athletics in the finale of their four-game set. Beltran batted .162 with zero home runs and seven RBIs in April, but is hitting .308 with four homers and 14 RBIs in the second month of the season after belting a go-ahead two-run homer and adding an insurance RBI in Saturday's 5-3 victory — first-place New York's fifth in its last 17 contests.

Brian McCann has an eight-game hitting streak in which he is hitting .385 and drove in a run Saturday for the eighth straight contest, becoming the first Yankee to do so all as a catcher since Yogi Berra accomplished the feat in 1956. New York designated hitter Alex Rodriguez on Saturday moved to within 16 hits of 3,000 after extending his hitting streak to nine contests in helping the Yankees win for only the second time in their last 13 contests at O.co Coliseum. Oakland will try to snap its team-record eight-series winless streak at home (0-7-1) after falling to 4-22 in games decided by two runs or fewer this season. The A's Jesse Chavez continues to suffer from a lack of run support and opposes Adam Warren, whom New York manager Joe Girardi told reporters "is pitching as well as anyone in our rotation right now."

TV: 4:05 p.m. ET, YES (New York), CSN California (Oakland)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Yankees RH Adam Warren (3-3, 3.91 ERA) vs. Athletics RH Jesse Chavez (1-5, 2.44)

Warren yielded one run — a solo homer — on two hits and struck out five in 6 1/3 innings of a 5-1 victory over Kansas City on Tuesday in his third consecutive quality start. The 27-year-old Alabama native, who had been winless over three starts and lost each of his previous two turns 3-2, has a 1.24 WHIP and .239 batting average against. Warren is 0-1 and allowed three runs in 12 1/3 innings over five relief appearances against Oakland and has faced Ben Zobrist (2-for-9) the most.

Chavez ran his winless streak to four starts (0-3) after allowing an unearned run and five hits in eight innings of a 1-0 loss to Detroit on Tuesday. "I don't worry about my own individual record, I just worry about the team's,'' the 31-year-old Californian told reporters. ''I just try to give us a good chance to win every five days.'' Chavez is 3-0 with a 2.29 ERA in four games (two starts) against New York and has shut down McCann (0-for-7, four strikeouts).

WALK-OFFS

1. Yankees LHP Andrew Miller on Saturday lowered his batting average against to .068 this season — lowest in the majors among relievers — while recording his 15th consecutive save and RHP Dellin Betances extended his team record with his 24th straight scoreless appearance to start the season.

2. Oakland C Stephen Vogt has reached safely in all 24 home games this season.

3. New York on Saturday placed OF Slade Heathcott (.353, home run, three RBIs in 17 at-bats) on the disabled list because of a right quad strain and called up OF Ramon Flores from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Flores on Saturday played left field and went 0-for-4 in his major-league debut.

PREDICTION: Yankees 3, Athletics 2